The Sun. — London, England, 1808-01-15 00:00:00

litiiiCk;bur tlid'dis- could equal the infarriy of the"it honour qt their 4 igrageful . But if it . I.4re - triie that" the Fr.:rich hlve exatiied: a little from : their . enensie, why should thev not in faa They. haVe 8 - 00,0b0 troops, and they are ready to make every sac' ii to double their tome, if it should ne necessary ; not that w is their tiatu:- . ral trade, and' that they . ,do not sensibly feel the - Sacrifices which, they make in withdrawing so many hands from the cultivation of their ;o tcr~le Sq. In. possession of a fine country, they wish to, addict themselves: to the conque s ts of corn-` tnerce and indristryi ; but your tyranny 'will not suffer them. YOU have r oused a giant, wlloin lav ing roused, you continue to irritate incesintly: burin; fifteen years, your injustice has only tended . to adt to.his energy and power, .which your per- . severance in 'your tyranny will still increase. He not only will not lay down his arms, but he will aug 7 . • mt•nt his force until he has conquered the libertysor the,seas, which is his tirst right,. and the patrimony of all nations. If the afflicting consequences of war' are protratted, if the Trengh troops continue a huf-. - • • then to the territories which they occupy, ,you are the cause: All the calamities which oppress'Europe, pros. ,:d from you alone. These great questicS are not to be resolved by diplOtnatic-conmon places.--. you are disposed to make peaCe, .France, wil! hr.. ready to tnake it.. Of this y,Ott . 'cannot .be ignorant ; .you well know it. An anedote ge nenhly . known May be quoted in support of this { assertion : ,when the ,Imperial Guart. set out for Jena, N and it was known thai . the Emperor was to join the army a few day s afterjor.l LAUDE DA LE. asked M. CHAMPAGNY, whether, if England made peace, the Emperor NAPOLEON .wotild .CotiseOt 'to stop and countermand the march 'of bistro ps against Prussia ? The Emperor replied in the affirmative. With one word, you could have saved TrUssia.. By prevent ing the fall,pf this Power, yonwonld, have main tained on the .Elbe that barrier - so necessary. to your dtarest interests, ,the re-establishment of ' , Adtich in future is impossible. • But while Itte alledged.rejeainn of the, Empe " ror of Russia's mediation, between Great' Britain " and France, is stated.as.a just ground of his rial Majesty's resentment his Majesty's rerest " of that mediation, for the re-establisluow „of " peace between Great. Britain and Denmark:, 1,5170' fir presented ,as an insult, Which . it .was beyond the . " bounds of his Imperial Majesty's Moderation to endure." (tO.) , N . • • (to), The E iiperor of Russia MUSt'neeissarily . lie offended_at the comrianniCation that. Mr. 'Ca - tivNO. made to Mr, Rylna (M. Rut), and in which the g n gl" Minister declares liiinSelf certain that RusSia Would guarantee Denmark frOni the just resentnuAit of France, if, after having suffered its dependence to be violated, and its Fleet ,io be carried,.away, Den. mark should constitute.itself into a Briti,h Piovince. This, fahieb'ood had no etfea but to irritate the Princ e. Royal : it could not impose upon' any body. Eng land wished Russia to guaranige Denim:FL trona, the resentment of France, at the time when she de clared thashe offered violence ui Denmark only. to guarantee herself' from the secret engagements con trthed 41 1 11,4 by the Emperor of Russia.. It is really bard to, detarthine.which is the most remark able in instance,thi the' bad r e asoning or the itn s . Morality of the Cabinet of Loudon. • :,.er. • B o t until the liussian Declaration was publish . " ed, Ili. Majesty hael no season to suspe& that " any , opiniens which the Emperor of Russia Might, " entertain of the tratispetions at Copenhagen„could " be such as to peeelude his Imperial Majesty from ," undertaking, at the. request of Great Britain, 'that • same . office of Mediator, whiCh he had assumed " with. so Mach alaerity on the 'part of France., Nor • can his Majesty, forget that the first symptoms of " reviving confidence, since the Peace, of Tilsit, the " only prospe& of success in the endeavonrs of his " Majesty's Ambassador to restore the ancient and " good understanding. between Great Britain and " Russia, appeared when the inteltigence of, the " siege.of Copenhagen h a d b een recently receiYedi . PetersburglL!' (If.) (1 1) If the EMperor of Russia has shewn'Eng • land the first symptoms of reviving confidence atter. the Peace of Tilsit, it is not consequently true that lie has concluded at Tilsit secret arrangements which Placeo hiln at enmity with England. If those demonstrations ha ve ta k en pl ace at t h e moment 'whets . the investment of 'Copenhagen was known at St.. Petersburgh, it was not because the EmpeNr of Rus s ia felt:no resentment-;it was because 14 felt • some hopes of softening the ferocity of England by gentlemeasmes ;, it was becausehe wished tointer fere to save his unfortunate Ally ; it ,Was because, . ignorant of the causes of the Expedition to Copen hagen, knowing ihat he had nivei i no pretence for it directly or iodirectly; he was able to persuade him self for some time that England had some reasons to indece her to take so important a step. He was, however, bett er i n f orme d b y the cominenications'of the, Prince Royal, by t h e communications of England herself, by the Nlanifesto of the English General, which explained the Odious pretensions of his Go vernment ; and_ then he demanded that the attack on Copenhagen should cease. England answered him by. setting Copenhagen in flames, and carryi n g away tle Fleet. . After this operation, the most fatal fot England , of all the enterprizes which she has ever undertaken, • Only two courses to pursue t either to non - thine to occupy' Copenhagen, and that she thirst not 'do - or to evacuate Copenbageit 4. the consequence of Which she knew would be, that the Sound would be for ever shut 'against her. She then had the mean ness to have recourse to the mediation of Russia. She.laid open her charaaer ; she thought she could impose upon. the Emperor ALEXANDER but she Could obtain nothing by a proceeding rendered odi ens by this very opinion. Russia replied to her with the silence 'of contempt, ani by fortifying Cronstadt and her coasts'. This proCeeding of Eng land, then, prove 'one thing, : namely, that she did not think that, Russia' had formed secret engage ments at Tilait, contrary to her 'interests. This 'truth, established in so .many ways in these notes, overturns all the scatfolding of the English Manifesto. " of the Baltic .Sda, and the "'reciprocal guarantees Of the Powers that bttoflr " upessit, guarantees said IQ have been corm-at-tett ." with the knowledge of the British Government, " are stated es aggravations Orfila Majesty's proceed " irigs in the Bah no Baltic. li . cant :beltitended'tO, , re , time . " present his Majesty as' haYing at any me tsced in the principles upon which the inviolabi. lity of the .Baltic is maintained; tiowever his Majesty may at, partictiliE periods have forborne, " for. special reasons influencing his conduct at the " time, to act in contradi&ion to them. Such for " bearance never could have applied but to a state of peke and real' neutrality in, the North; and " his - Majesty most assuredly could not be expelled f'. to recur to it, after France has been suffered to " establish herself in undisputed Sovereignty along " the whole . coast of the Baltic Sea, from Dantzic to Lubec." (12.)- - t 2.) Why should not-England consent to the in violability of the Baltic ?: If it be not an inclosed sea, Why do the English vessels pay toll at Elsineur ? lIITI CV . " Nor can his Majesty conceive that, in proposing "•to the Prince Royal terms of peace, such as the " 'most successful - war on the part of Denmark could hardly have been expected to extort from Great " Britain, his'Majesty rendered himself liable to the • "imputation, either of exasperating the- resentment, "'or 'of outraging the dignity, of Denni - ark." . (13.) '(t3.) Europe will judge whether these conditions are; such its Denmark :could hardly obtain by the most successful war: England required, • I.' That the Danish , Navy should be given up to hur in deposit till peace. - 2:: That the just indignation produced by the•at tack upon Copenhagen should give way to friendly sentiments towards.'Englanch • • •3.•• That the Danish anny.shotlld take part against France, and carryon the' war for 'England. • 'We should add to all the advantages offered by' these fine terms granted by 'England, the•loviofithe Danish possessions in Germany, w bleb France would have icizeci, and iipon which territories she: would have beaten the - English, if she allowed them . to -land there. . We should in vain look' for the traces of any cal; culation, for any appearance of reason in such argu- Ments. The fat is, that the British Councils 'are guided by precipitation and ignorance, and that' in what the Government says, does, or intends,• no ob jed, view, or motive, can he discovered: • • • Majesty has'thus replied to all the &ire " 'rent accusations by which the :Russian Govern ment labours to•jnstify the rupture of a -cam -- oexion which has subsisted for ages', with recipro cal advantage to'Great Britain and Russia, and 'at • tempts to disguiSe the Operation of that external influence by which nu . ssia is driven 'into' unjust hostilities, for- interests not heroWe.', :(t4.) ' (14.) So that Russia has no interest in going, to war with England ;:for the iotereste - of commerce and navigation concern not the Russians. They have nb iti•Nrest in the indzpentrence of theßalti4for an Order' of the •Englith Ciaincil, has , stripped the Baltic of its independence,'-and anotherA)rderof the same Council inight decide that they. had! no in terest in the navigation of the Neva. The.objett. ; ! which all the Powers pr o pose to themselves;themselves;in re establishing the liberty of the seas,' and restoring,' peace to Europe, is an, .objeat foreign to Russia. Russia, for the last hundred years, has-derived such advantages fronF her cOtineetion with England, that • site has noshing further to, wish for. These greatt advantages consist in' a Treaty of Commerce; which has fettered and ruined the industry'and commerlin of Russia ; but since this Treaty has.eminently con tributed to the prosperity of 'England, whiff signifis it if it has all thejetfeas upon Russia of a perpetual frost. " The term nation del& war with Denthark has " been so anxiously sought by his Majesty;' thatiit " cannot be necessary : for hie Majesty to renew any " professions 'upon that • snbjed'. But his Majen "is at a - loss to reconcile the Emperor otAlussta's s• present anxiety , for the,conwletion of suelLan ar rangement with his Imperial Majeaty's .recent " refusal to contribute his good offices for effeaing " (is.) • (t 5.) His Britannic Majesty laboUrs here under a great embarrassment, and his Council 44 not fruitful . iivexeedients. France, Austria, Russia, require that the Danish Fleet should be restored ; that reparation' ,should. be made to the Prince Royal ; that the. Eng-. 'fish people, following the example of the. Romans upon a similar oecasion,. should surrender into the hands of the Prince Royal the person whO advised the Expedition against Copenhagen ; that the houses destroyed in that' city should be rebuilt at the ex pence of England, and finally that his'Britannic Ma jesty should disavow the outtage offered to all'So veteigns. This is Or distant from the proposalamade *Jay England. The requisition of his Imperial Majesty for the immediate conclusion,. by his Majesty, of a Peace ' 4 'with France, is as extraordinary in the substance, - as it is' offensive in the manner. His Majesty has at ne time declined to treat with France, when France' has professed a willingness to treat. on " 'an admissible basis. And the Emperor of Rus " sia cannot fail to remember' that the last Nego " tiation between , Great Britain and France was " broken otf upon points immediately affeaing, " not his Majesty's own interests, but those of his " Imperial Ally. But his Majesty neither on " derstands, nor will he admit the pretension of " the Emperor of Russia, to dilate the time, or the mode, of his Majesty's pacific Negotiations " with other Powers. It never will be endured " by his Majelly that any Government aliail, in " damnify itself for the humiliation of snbservi " ency to France, by the adoption of au insulting " and peremptory tone towards Great Britain."(l6) (16.) When a person endeavour's to support a cause which has neither truth nor justice in it, he should do it with ability, and there.ia-pu ability played in the remarkable assertion comained in the following paragraph : :" The last Negociatiou be tween .France and England was broken off:upon ,points immediately affecting, not his Majesty's,own 'interests, but those of his Imperial People of Europe, hear this. It, was not France which op posed pence; it was'not..the important interests ,of England which,prevented it; it was Russia alone • which then threw obstacles in the way. Well 'then, when this obstacle no longer exists, 'why does Eng land object to peace ? Why does she, in place Of ne gociating, - .ask upon ,what basis, France is :swilling to treat ? Why does she violate the flag of every native ? Why does. she Maintain the whole world to that state of irritation and violence which oppresses all atiatiens; and isatburthen to all Sovereigns.? ..Every, Englishman sheuld blush at being governed:by suoh' Bien. . . . ''T We. shall make no observations upon the sentence which concludes this paragraph. Insulting languagv_ from 'one Sovereign to another. is , Klegrading on!y to will despise the insult of England, but the Russian nation will not forget it. What the Manifesto would have lost by the suppression of this phrase and many Others is not pgrceived. France and Russia have the 'highest-esteem tor each other. Their union is the despair ot,Eogland,,and it will be fatal' to her. The expedition against Copenhagen should not have bees undertaken. Negotiations should have been opened for peace, somuch the more easy to be con cluded, as, according to the Engli'sh Mii n " it was only broken off upon points immediately affect ing thelinterests of his 4nperial Majesty?! _ "- His Majesty proclaims anew iliose principles " of Maritime Law, against which theActued Neu " 7trality, under the.auvices of the Empressi.:AT it A tuag..was originally directed ; and. against which ‘ Abe Tiresent .hostilities of 'Russia are denounced. " -Thos& principles :have been recognised and- tided upon iil t he:best pernads of the history. of Europe; "-and aced uiion by no. PoWer with more strianess cc:end:severity:than by, Russia herself in the reign of ILmpribis CAT ti A kti • Those principles it is "-the right and: the dutylif this •Majesty to main ‘-tain ;, and against every Confederacy his Majesty " determined, under the blessingof Divine Pro " -videnat, .to maintain them. They-have at all - times .contribtfted es,ientially, to. th e support of the ,Maritinie Power of Great Britain." (t (►7.4 y That which has . maintained the ;maritime power of England has ,not been tyrannical. principles or..:maxims, but the .policy, the energy, • the good sense‘-'end the prudent condua. of: pruiancesiuri it kettle divisions which they have oftem,had.the ad- ;tress to scatter on the , That which will esseiititilly cOntribute to . its,destructionis the thought esiness; precipitancy, viol‘!nce, .ano.silly arrogance Of their buccesiuri. The Enweror of Russia wishes tor . ti.'maritilnit peace. Austria,l47rancev:and 'Spain participate in , these sent itnents.- You have declared, that the Negotiation with France Was unly, broken. off upon points affeeting the interests of Russia.' 'herefore then, we again At', ,do you ~ cominue warY VOy, it Is not vt'tsli for • • It IS because you do not wish for iieaCe;that yo*" raise Useless questions. Frances, Ati4triA; Spain, Hot- 7 land, Naples, say, as' well as the 17r*40 of Russia, that they `` proclaim anew the - principle4lof the armed neutrality." . .Those‘pd.wei4 have doubtless 'the right to det - laro . the principles whicji arc to . l e the rule' of t h"6i r they the right to say on what con ditions it boxotiies thsein to he'your enemies, 'or neu tral. You, you rod 'en . .stie the principles of tour laws. '\Well thou ! this Opposition'of prin ciplo will not bean impeli nets t t re-ectablishront of peace : ' They have n neither sideany effe& dining peace ; th 4 have no application, except'Whert you are' at War with a maritime power but in that case each Govertiment isas the right and power to t °fist det the •flrit . 'vii.lation of its flag as an at ochosti lity. The' circuniCtances in which 'you swill 'then find' Vourselve4: . will determine your condua then. If is 'With FranCe that yotrare: at war; you will not juq,e' her . a . powersutficiently feeble to render it inditterent . to you 'whether you draW other clic mies upon' yOU; and you will sisetv some considera i tion for the rest of Europe. You did riot venture to insult the tiagsitif , every Power, till 'you had the address to arm all she COntinent against France.' It was then your maritime principles were changed ; and they' became More"hnjuse and more violent, in proportion as your Continental, conneMions became more contracted, 'yoor MliesAnaintsined with Jnore 'difficulty the struggle , in. which you had en gaged them. it 'was thus ,that when iitl9llll was obliged'to colled'all her force against the French iri Poland; you violated her fla i r, 'and refused her, in respell 'to her Contuneretal TrOty, concessions: which you showed yourselVes , divosed to •grant when s h e Wd- no kruer aiiy enethies • to. coinbat. The `Poweri of, the Contiimit, 6. in prOCiziailli lig anew the, principles.of the artno.i nitr,;.l!y," do out an:toting:e . the mtdtims tZpoii Which they purpose to act in ' the next 'Maritime War. ' Yno , ;Catinot prevent their di reCiing their policy astbey understand it ; they ex ercise in' this the ri ! lit whieliappertains to all Go veromenti, and to the- utsnrpation of which they would have nothing to e. oppo, but the iillinat Riau reittine: On your'part, you proclaim " the princi pres of your maritime 'laWs," that is, the maxims which you wiil ertiploy in your next war. The Con tinent has no interest in demanding from you either declarations or renunciations. Declarations would have no eifetit, tram t 6J:110c you might think you could forget them wittLimoonlty. Jtenunciations are. • without an object, since .w 4.1 cannot renounce what we do not possess. If we judge of wttat you will do by what you have hitherto done,. we-may conclude that you will not:requite froM the Powers of the Continent either dielaration'or eentuiciatii ; and .as they will demand none from you, th;.trk:! is hence no question to discuss, no diffiCulty - ta'resOfve there is . nothing which can retard for a. day the blessings of peace. If,.however, yon should . raise' the strange and novel pretension of imposing tipon,France, and the other Powers 'of the Contineilt, by an aet of your will alone, the • obligation of subscribing io your maritime laWs, this is as if yOu were to Nquii . e . that . the Legislature and SOvereignty of Russia, Prance, and Spain should be transported to Landon---a fine prerogative for your Parliament, it Would he the same as if you werelOproclaitu eve'rlaslitig or as if you were 1 to fix. as the termination of war the moment When you Should have seized - oh Si.' lieteriburgh, Paris, Vienna, and Madrid. But if chi, be not the but tom of your . sentiment, there is no further obstacle to peace 't for according to yob!. own expressions, " gociations were brokeh off oh :points which touch. ed - imenediately not the interests of his Britannic Majesty, bUt thoseof his imperial Ally ;" forthe Im perial Ally'of his Britannic ,Majesty' has infOrmed you 'the peace iat henceforth the principal end of his wish, , the principal object or .his interest.. 9r Er S' U N. •'' SOLAM QUIS DICIRE FALIVM • vitiakv, T.4No4lil' 13, 1609. Last nighi a /riatiiiln; i4f tk 7th 'reaciVed town, which contains a very lons co ntnuntary . upon the British Declaration in answer,to the Ruin Ma- niteto, We have not root's iirpresent to enter into' ton° :IQ .V ova but notice, that it las less of viole it invective against this country than we have btee ► at custome.l to find in thecolumos of.the Miniteur. The Salcette Frigate arrived yesti , rday at St. ITelep'* with Dispatches from India. Lord WIL. , LIAM.BENTINCIC came passenger in this Vessel. Mr. SANSOSI, the Chairman of Committee of American Merchants, yesterliy waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to know whether li cences would be' granted fOr the proteCtion of par-, goes destined for America. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, he saw no occasion for such licen..ec; as we were not at war with America; but %edict not think there could be any objediou to grant them, to satisfy those why might think it necessary to ap ply for them. Fr is stated in that the B ink of England had offered to len I Guvcantnont Ten Mil lions, for one year,without interest, and that Govern ment had declined the offer, as not being adequate to their expectitioni. NVe have moon to be. lieve that the above statement is inacetwate. WE are happy to announce the safe arrival at Pots mouth of Adtnirat MuunAY, with the Polyphemus and Africa, and the. Transports from Cork. The Dispatches brought to Prince STA n Ementtc , by the . Austrian Messenger NEtimAx.,Og, were yes terday, ,cointuunicated .to jiii IVl:ljestyt . s Ministeri, and it Wai generally believed that the Prince imme diately after applied for pas:yoits, fur the purpose of leaving this Country. Yesterday the Clux,El4, the Doke of CAIVIBRIDOIi Prineelises.A.tiousTA-, ELI Z ETU, MARY, and AME LIA, honaured Lad); CTIMILOTTE witha at, her apartments, in St. James's Palace. Yesterday the I.)oke of Cu Nisetti.A.ND .and .PrincOss CHARLOTTA of WA Las , dined with their MAJESTIBC and the Paisci , ,ssr.r. ,;, . On Wednesday, and last evening, their TIES had Seledt parties to. tea. and cards. Mr..CLIV.e (of Herefordshire), with his family, , set out on Wednesday morning, tiotn.his house in WiMpoluestreet, on his return to France, axe pri-•', Boner on his parole of honour; -the prolongation of his liberty having been refused- by the •Freech Government. The7Transport B. have granted him a Flag of Truce for the purpose. The next Packet from the Leeward Islands is ex peeled to bring intelligence that the' Danish Islanes are in our posses ,ion. Let teraof this ist ult. from St. Thomas's give a deploranle account of the state of that Island., fur .want of provisions. On Wednesday last their Royal Highnesset. the Dukes -of KENT, CUMBERLAND and Caterierooe, favoured the. Han. Geoftoe VILLIERS Va.r.ir.es with their company to diluter, at Cranbourne the elegant Villa of that Gentleman, near Wiudior..„ The Earl of Wtrice three Ladies Cony. wAta.ts, .Mr.,and .vlrs. Deuxtstoieo, Mr, and Mr.. Cu,xs aod:ln other persons of .rain; andlashion, were also of the. party. THE KING of SwiDEN.—A young imatt,-e trt tine Filesbire, who has resided for sonic years in Sweden,,and is settied.io that country a , n Arms in a -let ter- lately• written to his father, says, " The' i,Queen o f . S w img l i fell upon her knees. three times before the KA en, end besought him:to ass n doox.k. I P ] t it . T t. t t ict e et i r li e d i wrQ thatr of Eicisice ; but he woul.l e would rather resign the - Crown of Sweden thae.go from allninee wit i .Enelxid. The-King of SWEDEN has one of the best'' chareders which a man can .have.. He is . strift in religion, and Airm in his undertakings. - . 4 t)4 lie has never hati to d o wi t h enter 1111 i deCiarra, ,one of inch a noble as47:Te W ;T AV s 4;;;;.,1.- rritre, -of Sweden . • Sir Heriav-VANts .Temesse. has got a horse to make a tirst-effort for the plate at the ensuing New rnerkit*Meeting,- whose speed-is expeCted to prove sopericir to that t lierubletonien or Diamond, of sporting celebrity. ---.A.-,,eurions circumstance occurred last night at Drury-lane Theatre. During the performance of the Pantomime,- a Gentleman in the Prince's Mx leaped out upon the Stage, animated, perhaps, with tbe. desire of -imitating the Clown , or Harlequin ; but,. 'however well . he might be qualified for per -forming either of these charaeters on another ocea sion, hacicertainly sacrificed:more freely to cline. chus than was prudent on a debut. He reeled aL nit a little, rolled over the lamps,- and having coin. gulshed the lights, fell into the orchestra with a - crash which produced a vertunexpeCted and sant discord.—The galleries cried. encore, end the new performet retired, covered with oil, after agreeing to pay for the broken lamps end Cri*llVAias. Thursday sennight the Tragedy of Dougiet, a t ,d the entertainment of "his all a l'-uce, were-per formed at Gloucester 'Theatre, by a party of Ama— teurs, Ter the benefit of the Infirmary.. The veipit amounted , to-.g51. Mrs. Lerclizterm per. formed the part.of Lady „Randolph, M r; BuckLe, who attended from Cheltenham, declined .receiving tho smallest pecuniary remuneration ; end it was with great relucience Mrs. LITCHFIELD could be prevailed-upon to accept her travelling expeoces. The Earkind Countess of BeßKltLiti were present, and all the fashion of the country. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, be• fore the Right Hon. EDWARD Lord ELLRNI3O Roo oft, Lor&Citiel -Justice, Btc. in and atter Hilary Term 1808 : • • • • • •-; • IN TERM, - Wednesday , 27. 't'l u u•;da.y - . . lan 2R; Tuesday -- I c"- I. Thar .I , IY F ch. 4 . Wctiriesd4l , . Vcb. 10 11,11 idoy t. LONDON. AFTER 1:1:101 Saturday - Feb Munci.iy Feb Pi . .lCl`.. :11 . ()CK ring DAY AT rWLLV F. O'CLOCK. Con)